KFI: Astronomers have released some of the most detailed images of the sun’s surface yet, revealing features as small as 18 miles across. The images were captured by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope located at around 10,000 feet above sea level near the summit of Haleakala volcano in Maui, Hawaii.
The telescope, which was brought online in December, is the largest solar observatory in the world and features a 4-meter (13-foot) mirror that was able to image the pattern of turbulent, “boiling” plasma covering the sun some 93 million miles from Earth. The visible cell-like structures in the image are each around the size of Texas, where the hot plasma rises before cooling off and sinking below the surface in the darker parts of the image in a process known as convection, which transports heat from inside the sun to its surface. more here
Are you sure that’s not a macro shot of caramel popcorn? 😝
Honestly thought the close up would have been a picture of Stacy Abrams.
You know….cuz’ 18 miles across… (crickets)
A-A-Ron….You could slap the black off Me anytime Sugah….
Thanks! Almost forgot to put oranges on grocery list.
Suntestines
It took a million years for the material on the surface of the sun to get to there from the core. Here on earth, it’s taken one generation to put us in peril of our young voting us into communism.
AOC said you should take that picture at night when it’s not so bright!
#OrangeSunBad – Leftists
ah, who cares about the Sun? it’s not like it produces
Global Warming,Global Cooling, Climate Change or anything” … it’s Settled Science™️ ” ~ AlGore
Stellar
Looks like a bowl of Corn Pops to me..
Ok, release the Biden jokes now….
I have some BIG transmitting radio amplifiers.
Our sun puts a whoop’en on me.Trillions & trillions
of watts of pure radio frequency energy every pico
second.from 100 KHZ to waaaayyy past light! Gamma,
Beta and Alpha rays.Not to mention X-rays…
Radioationman wishes to go out setting his controls
to the heart of the sun…
Well, Texas in August is hot as blazes, that’s for sure.